Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Dog bite explained

Okay, about the dog bite. No, it
didn't bite my butt. It bit the back of my leg hence the reason why the
rip was below the back pocket down to the knee. Yes, it did break skin.
Yes, I did clean it. Yes, I'm keeping it clean. No, I did not go to the
doctor because the dog had its shots up to date - yes, including the
rabies shot. Yes, I did call Hna Diaz to let her know (because the
mission nurse just finished the mission so we´re waiting for the next
one to arrive). Now stop worrying. I'm not going to die! I had bites from
Pepper [our dog] that hurt more - less damage yes, but they hurt more. :P

Now,
on to this week. We walk a lot. Tuesday and Wednesday we didn't teach
anyone! Pure contacting all day. On Thursday we contacted all day until 9
which is when we finally found someone to teach! She's a neighbor of
members that just re-moved back into the neighborhood. We're hoping that
she progresses because she is really receptive.

The other
days were normal. One of our investigators is a 10 year old kid whose
dad and gpa are less active but reactivating due to the tragic,
unexpected death of the gma. Skipping over a giant story, E** is very
shy but now we have gained a ton of confidence with him. He actually
talks and responds to our questions. This week we created a game in
order to teach him lesson 4, the commandments. Wow, it worked better
than we thought! He stayed focused, didn't get bored, learned and
remembered everything. We are now currently creating a game for lesson
5. We are just waiting on the gpa for him to be baptized. The gpa needs
to talk with the bishop and receive permission in order to baptized
E**. The only problem is that they now haven't gone to church for a few
weeks because they go to the cemetery every Sunday and spend the whole
day there. Before, they would go to sacrament meeting then leave but for
some reason these last few weeks they been going straight there. But
that'll end this next week because they only had that self-made commitment
for 3 months. So, we're working with them so that E** can be baptized
in April!

Also, on Saturday we found a 16 year old,
J**. He is really receptive and actually accepted a baptismal date
during that first lesson, went to church yesterday and today we are
going to teach him again. If all goes well he´ll be baptized on the
10th.

Other than that there are 2 other investigators that
are now progressing - finally! One of them still needs to get married.
The other needs to confront his dad and tell him that he wants to get
baptized. He's been meeting with the missionaries for a year now.
Yesterday we were talking with the member family whose daughter is the
gf. They said that the other day he finally decided to be baptized but
that he needs to talk to the dad. Well see what happens with that. The
dad is an Evangelico fanático. In other words, he's extremely religious
and against every church - especially the Mormons- that isn't his
church.

So ya. That was the week. No, I still haven't
received that package but we have Zone Conference this week so if it's
arrived, I'll get it on Wednesday. It hadn't arrived on the 12th so
hopefully now it's here.